Track & Field, Cross Country

Stephen Decatur High School

Class of 1986

Inducted August 2017

A two-time H&R Macon County Track Athlete of the Year (1985 and '85), Foertsch was the first girls runner from Stephen Decatur to receive an athletic scholarship — she went on to run at Northwestern. Foertsch finished fourth at the Class AA cross country meet as a senior, sixth in the Class AA 800 as a junior, and took third in the 1,600 and sixth in the 800 as a senior.

Taken from the Herald & Review, Sept. 14, 2022